examiner and beyond you can see some of those titles there now to break down this case i'm joined by michael brooks he's a producer for the majority report hey there michael so this seems like a cut and dry case of a conflict of interest but really a defense insult by saying he's not a journalist so is that an applicable defense here. meghan it's great to be talking with you you know that would probably come as news to many people who've read his columns and his blog posts he wasn't identified explicitly as representing the government so obviously implicitly or not implicitly very directly you would think that he was offering objective analysis and it's as simple as that i don't really think there's much nuance here he was dishonest in his dealings and his in his representation ok what about the other writers or media outlets that publish them should they be held equally responsible as he is being. well i think you know the other writers you know they have this notion of being sort of subcontracted or whatever maybe there's a little bit of murkiness but essentially yes i mean look this is a p.r. an

senate executive producer of the documentary g m o m g and majority report producer michael brooks in our studio from new york welcome to the both of you so elizabeth i'm going to start off with you can we really trust these labels that tout that they're green and all natural it depends what labels you're looking at if it's something that certified like us da organic or leed certified if you're looking at the green building then that's one thing if you're actually just looking at the title of a product many companies have just green washed because they know that consumers really want to buy green products they want to feel good about themselves or they want to feel healthy if it sizzle natural in the on the product but the name of a product and actually what's in it can be very different right michael want to ask you i mean do you go out of your way to buy agree and if so i mean do you usually trust the labels on them. first of all liz hi elizabeth i do buy some green products i buy organic products try to. buy non chemical detergents and things like that there are some companies i tr

to write columns in publications from the guardian to the washington examiner and beyond well michael brooks is the producer of the majority report and he joined us earlier to break down this confusing case it turns out that trevino defends himself by saying that he's not a journalist so i asked michael is this an applicable defense. that would probably come as news to many people who read his columns and his blog post. he wasn't identified explicitly as representing the malaysian government so obviously implicitly or not implicitly very directly you would think that he was offering objective analysis and it's as simple as that i don't really think there's much nuance here he was dishonest in his dealings and his in his representation ok what about the other writers or media outlets that that published them should they be held equally responsible as he is being. well i think you know the other writers you know they have this notion of being sort of subcontracted or whatever it may be there's a little bit of murkiness but essentially yes i mean look this is a p.r. and communications operation

calling names ron miguel, dennis moskovian, my apologies, lori lineman, eric brooks, michael raisin, danny campbell, and howard wong. >>> commissioners, ron miguel. i'd like to thank the supervisor for the outreach made. i was at attendance at a number of the meetings. it was outreached to a large variety of both supporters and those in opposition and those who were before you when this subject came up to you before. i think it was thorough. i think it was well attended. and i think it was well listened to, particularly as the supervisor just told you, there have been at least 34 changes since it was originally involved. i have been reading legislation of one type or another since the late '50s when i was a lobbyist in sacramento. and then involved in c-e-q-a and nepa situations, 16 years as president of par, and been with the housing action coalition and, of course, when i was on the other side of the podium. one of the problems is clarity and certainty, and no one knows particularly when it deals with cad x's and negative declarations where that certainty is, and there absolutely h

we talk with scott shane, rosa brooks, michael boyle and peter singe the scary thi is once you have this incredibly ambiguous and infinitely flexible sort of legal theory that says when we say you are a combatant, are you a combatanting end of story, nobody ever gets to investigate or second-guess us, that's the problem. >> rose: we conclude this evening with a look at gaffe stand-- afghanistan, past, present, future with les grel be, dexter filkins, gram bowley. >> we leave a country that is even more war-torns than thanhe one wwentin ten years ago. a countries that's still divided, still corrupt, still lagging economically, still on the verge of erupting into a wider war because we undertook far more than we were capable of fixing. and i think the-- we paid a heavy price for that. and i think the afghans did as well. >> rose: questions about drones and what happens in afghanistan when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provid by th following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: the debate over drone war

i spoke to michael o'hanlon of the brookings institute and he says we should not jump to the conclusion means a conclusion to the civil war is about to come about. >> as you know from looking at baghdad, many times cities become a battlegrounds and it just becomes a prolonged area of intense back and forth. and certain neighbhoods are more on one side, certain neighbors on the other. civilian population suffer. it doesn't mean we're nearing the end of this. >> the bottom line is,. >> the rebel does not possess the fire power. >> shepard: we heart heard from assad. >> very interesting. the whereabouts of president assad. there have been a lot of rumors and speculation about his potential whereabouts, and we haven't seen him. this is a picture released just today of president assad released by the syrian constitute news agency, greating a provincial governor there. we have no idea when this picture was taking there are strikingly similar images published be the state news agency from as longing a as last september. we do know he is probably, probably, confined to a smaller and smaller are

some experts, including michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution believed that it may now be time the west to take more firm action, perhaps a no-fly zone. listen. >> i would not do it unilaterally. i think it's usual that we have arabs behind us and also our allies in europe. i think we have to send a message that this war is not going to be allowed to continue like this forever and assad is not going to be allowed to win. we say that to ourselves all the time but they don't believe it in damascus and they don't believe it in moscow. we have got to make them believe it interesting point for michael that they simply do not believe in damascus and moscow that this is the end game for president assad. he still believes and his back is in moscow that he can survive all of this. >> shepard: speaking of assad. we heard so little from him. last few days nothing. >> this is very interesting. there have been all manner of speculation and rumor about his whereabouts and well-being on the internet. but we haven't seen him. now, this picture was published by the state syrian news agency toda

michael o'hanlon of brookings institution is going to be joining us.f the sunday programs, including face the nation, can be heard on c-span radio. good morning, nancy. host: today on the network talk shows, the topics include same- gun-controle, legislation, and president's trip to the middle east. today's guests include michael blumberg. 1 pm eastern, the manager of president obama's reelection campaign and republican consultant karl rove. at 2:00 p.m. it is fox news sunday. cnn state of the union follows at 3:00 p.m.. colorado democratic governor and tom tarantino, chief policy officer for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. the nationlock, face for cbs. bob schieffer talking with congressman mike rogers. and the president of "freedom thearry" president of family research council will be there. week," and "this finally "face the nation" from cbs > on c-span radio or anyone on xm, your smartphone -r online at cs- spanradio.org. >> the most striking difference is the calmness of the parade. a hundred years ago it wasn't a parade so much as a rio

joining us, michael o'hanlan, senior policy fellow at the brookings institution.emy scahill, national security correspondent for "the nation" and author of "dirty wars" due to pub lilish next month. the first lady spent time today with veterans of the war. the president issued a statement honoring those who paid the ultimate price. has this become a war that americans would prefer to consign to distant memory? >> hi, martin. well, i think the short answer is, yes. i also very much appreciate your introduction and starting with remembering our veterans. because i think rather than this being seen as a day to commemorate either a victory or defeat, it's a day to commemorate the service of so many. because as you say, the cost has been enormous and the costs are right before us. the costs have largely already been paid. the benefits, which i hope will ultimately be substantial, are nonetheless very fragile. or provisional. a new iraqi government, which at least is not run by a hussein family member but nonetheless is hardly a stable democracy, for example, and may or

michael hanlon's a senior fellow at the brookings institution, and you literally just got back from afghanistanl. it's great to have you back on the program. >> thanks, jenna. nice to be with you. jenna: your tension trip through, what's your big takeaway this time around? >> well, there are two takeaway, and first i don't think will surprise too many people because it's opinion in the headlines, the obvious difficulty with president karzai and the united states. and i got a little more of a feel for what's behind that. let me say simply that most afghans are very worried about president karzai's behavior because even if they understand some of why he's made these critical comments, they value the u.s. relationship so much that they really hate the idea of president karzai, for whatever reason, risking its demise or its premature curtailment because he's upset. now, there are some reasons. most afghans are very concerned because they so value the u.s./afghan relationship. that's my takeaway on the politics side. and other big thing, of course, is that everyone's starting to debate the elections

peter singer, he is director of 21st century security and intelligence at the brookings institution. here in new york michael boyle, he was formerly a counterterrorism advisor to president obama. i am pleased to have all of them here to talk about this. i begin with michael boyle. explain how this became and why, you know, a crucial element of the battle against terrorism on the part of the obama administration. >> well, i think the obama administration confronted a unique series of difficulties when they came into office. the one thing is there was growing instability in pakistan which made rely on pakistan's government much more difficult. the second as we know hamid karzai in afghanistan has also been becoming more and more difficult for the united states to deal with. i think drones began to look like a very attractive way of dealing with a terrorism problem in afghanistan and in pakistan, in part because dealing with the government's was so difficult and costly to do. in a relatively short period of time we've moved from a relatively spare use of drones under the bush administration on something like 50

. >> michael o'hanlon is a senior policy fellow at the brookings institution. has approved, as you know, another $60 million in aid to the syrian opposition, but it's humanitarian aid. given news of this latest atrocity, do you think the pressure is growing for some kind of military support, perhaps even intervention? >> martin, it's a great question, and the answer is i doubt it, not yet. i think you could hear that in john kerry's choice of words a moment ago in what you played. he said we need to get the assad regime to make a different set of choices. i thought he was going to say we need to get the assad regime to collapse or to go away or at least assad to go into exile. he didn't say that. he may have said that in a different part of the press conference to be fair, but in other words we are still ambivalent about how much we care about this particular war, how willing we are to get more engaged, and also, of course, whether we want to play hardball with russia or hope that russia sort of comes over and helps us just by a change of its own heart. >> i wa

brooks. so many republicans in this town unfortunately seem to understand conservatism and ronald reagan as much as alec baldwin understands temper management or michael more understands legance -- or michael moore understands elegance or joe biden understands anything. [laughter] is it true that the vice president of the united states has said that transgendered discrimination is a civil rights issue of our time? he really did. god help the republic. so what do we conservatives do? what is a conservative? over the last three days we have had a terrific and elegant speeches from people who have been talking about this. instead i am going to talk about what a conservative is not. paul ryan, you are a good man and you mean well and you had real courage in taking on medicare and you've shown real courage in taking on the issue of obamacare. budget of 41osed trillion dollars over the next 10 years with more and more and more spending every year, keeping the obamacare taxes is not conservatism. this is not waht we do. the you have national aspirations? to yourself and your country a favor, take that budget back and return with a new one. doeswith one that

for analysis we bring in michael o'hanlon director of research and a senior of foreign policy fellow at the brookingshank you. >> that sound that we played for the president's speech today, is what we heard a fair response to the criticism that the president hasn't acted aggressively enough? >> well it's a very fair way of looking at the theory. in theory any military operation sound appealing when you're frustrated by what you're watching and you want to make a difference. the president is certainly right to remember that when you get involved, you know, it's hard to get out and even if you start providing arms to the rebels, you implicate yourself in a way that it mayes in estate escalation. i agree that we should be arming the rebels and i consider nato arab league and combined air strikes in support of it, but i understand the president's reluctance so far. i think it's about time, though, we re-assess. you've written extensively on military options for syria. is it your view that the united states should enact an air operation? because one of assad's greatest advantages over the rebels, as you k

brookings. my name is michael o'hanlon.l know, we are honored today to general john allen with us, the former commander of the international security assistance force in afghanistan until just last month when he compared 19 months in command. in just a moment i'm going to ask you to join me in welcoming general allen's home and thank him for his service but let me first summarize a couple of highlights from his career that i know many of your familiar with, when the histories of this period are written, as they are already being of course, general allen will without doubt be one of the handful of most important generals in both iraq and afghanistan who really did so much in these campaigns. he was a 1976 graduate at an apples, had a career with a different assignments, very typical of our modern military know to what is most of what he was an architect of the modern infantry officer at quantico which was most stable and toughest courses and training regiments and the entire u.s. military. he then was rewarded for this accom

of new york, mayor michael bloomberg talking about this earlier today, was asked about it, saying it's a nightmare when any teen dies, but promising a full and fair investigation. brooke>> i know you're saying there's a lot of confusion as far as the shots, where the shots happened, how they happened, people are livid in the community, but what about new york police? what is commissioner ray kelly saying about the police action that night? >> reporter: the police commissioner had been questioned about this at a city council meeting but hasn't really spoken publicly about this, but the police are saying they recovered a gun, and that they have spoken to several witnesses and they have those witnesses on tape telling about what they heard and what they saw. so, you know, the police say they have recovered a gun from this site on saturday night. what people in this community are questioning is was it kimani gray's gun. brooke, bottom line here is this taps into an underlying anger in this community, and you talk to leaders here and what they'll tell you is that there is just a lot of anger that had been simmering, and that was kind of a breaking point for them. it's just

brookings institution for remarks from general john allen. will talk about his time in the command. this is just getting underway live here on the c-span. >> good morning everyone. i am michael o'hanlon. we are honored to wait to have general john allen with us, t forhe commandf of security assistance from calf -- the former commander of security assistance from afghanistan. i am good at asking to join me in welcoming general allen and thank him for our service. when the histories of this period are written as they already are, general john allen be one of the most important generals. he was a 1976 graduate of annapolis. he had his career over many different assignments. one of them that was most notable, he was an architect -- an architect of the modern industry -- he was then rewarded for his accomplishment and for many other things he has done in his career by being the first marine to the superintendent at the naval academy in annapolis. i think if you -- i think you that appreciate military culture. you will recognize the kind of special person that was needed to be available before the baby was never comfortable with a marina -- with a marina running annapolis. that rk